Comprehensive Energy Management

Utilities Management

The Office of Comprehensive Energy Management was established to ensure the enterprise-wide strategic management of the procurement of utility commodities and to manage the university’s role in the 50-year partnership with its energy concessionaire, Ohio State Energy Partners (OSEP).

I want to...

Utility Costs* per unit for Fiscal Year 2024

	Electric	Steam	Water	Chilled Water	Gas
Unit of Measure	KWH	1000 lbs	CCF	ton-hr	MCF
FY24 Total Rate	$ 0.1499	$ 37.3412	$ 10.1501	$ 0.5164	$ 14.7056
FY25 Total Rate	$ 0.1515	$ 36.2181	$ 10.3553	$ 0.5853	$ 12.6543

*Utility Costs include all costs associated with the generation, distribution, operations and systems maintenance for each utility on the Columbus campus. For example, electricity costs include the cost of the energy commodity purchased from the competitive marketplace, the state-regulated costs for the delivery of the commodity to campus, the cost to operate, maintain and repair the power distribution system on campus, and any associated capital costs for expansion, additions, or upgrades of those campus systems.